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Perhaps the Garden State should switch its nickname to the Barnyard State. A New Jersey judge has dismissed animal cruelty charges against a cop accused of committing a sex act with young cows,…

A network of Russian malware writers and spammers paid hackers 43 cents for each Mac machine they infected with bogus video software, a sign that Macs have become attack targets, a security…

Director Roman Polanski, whose turbulent life has on occasion come close to resembling the violent, perverse world of his movies, has been arrested in Zurich on a 1978 US warrant for having sex with…

A WOMAN has been charged after trying to steal a Chihuahua puppy at gunpoint, police said today.

A Polish court has awarded $11,000 (7,400 euros) in damages to a woman likened to a child killer by a Catholic magazine for wanting an abortion.

Arsonists have attacked a large doughnut sculpture in New Zealand’s town of Springfield.

Web pages have long included anchor links, which, when clicked, send you to a specific section of the page. Wikipedia uses them heavily to help users jump between headings and navigate the sometimes…

Snake catchers in Alice Springs say venomous snakes are getting fatter and becoming more active.

Gympie police are searching for a busload of men who paraded nude in front of motorists on the Bruce Highway north of the south-east Queensland city this morning.

The good news is that Illinois is no longer the most heavily spammed state in the country.

ANZ has made its long awaited move into wealth management in Australia by buying out its joint venture partner ING in its existing domestic business for $1.76 billion.

ROBERT Mugabe has built a secret farming empire of land seized from at least five white-owned businesses, an investigation by Britain’s Daily Telegraph has found.

A California federal judge has ordered Google to temporarily de-activate a Gmail account after a bank mistakenly sent sensitive data to the account.

Chris Carr and the BUB Racing team have done it again. Carr piloted the BUB Racing Streamliner Seven to a new motorcycle land speed record of 367.382 mph yesterday on the Bonneville Salt Flats at the…

Parasitic gut worms, such as hookworm, might aid the development of new treatments for asthma and other allergies, a study in Vietnam suggests.